Breaking The System
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Last published Thu, Nov 6, 2025
Book 1 of The System Trilogy
Ember Quinn is living an ordinary life in battery city. Deprived of her personality and emotions since childhood, she is the perfect example of a perfect citizen. However, after 15 years, she quits her emotion suppressant pills, and sees the "amazing" city for what it really is. A place of lies and secrets with penalties of death if you step out of line. Ember leaves her old self in the city, embracing her Killjoy alter ego as she joins the fight against the people who tore her apart. In her rise to becoming a feared and respected renegade, she makes allegiances, faces betrayals and says goodbye to many people along to way.
Started Aug 14th 2024 - 1:22 am
Cover designed by yours truly🙃
Note:
This is a fanfiction. I do not own My Chemical Romance (sadly enough)
All characters belong to their respective owners.
Although some of the characters (for example Ember Quinn, Sybelle Jones, and The Shadow Puppets to name a few) are all characters of my making.
Please ask permission if you wish to use them.
Special thanks to my friends Sybelle, Saskia, and Ainsley for the inspiration behind this story! You guys mean the world to me!
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